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AJ Preller had already scouted Tatis Jr. pretty heavily before the White Sox even signed him. There’s a thread about this. We got snookered by a guy with perhaps the most extensive Latin American scouting focus in the game today, quite simply. Their scouts were all over extended spring games in 2016 reconfirming.

It’s really to the point where it’s quite challenging to motivate yourself to even care anymore...

Privately, many of us who know Nielsen from Georgetown cannot believe that she is the same person who we see as, if not the architect, then certainly the engineer of this tragically dark chapter of our nation's history. "How does she bring herself to do this?" questioned one mutual friend in a recent group chat among several SFS alums. The issue is that among those of us who know her, we can be fairly certain that Nielsen hates this policy and hates defending it, but she feels that in the oddball "Game of Thrones"-like environment of the Trump presidency, she was handed an opportunity to land a Cabinet level position -- one that she might not have gotten in any other administration. For Nielsen, her reasoning for staying on and pretending to defend the policy could be quite simple: This is the most important role she will ever hold in her life, and to give it up after just a few months on the job would be asinine. But Nielsen needs to think this through more than one chess move ahead. If we have learned anything in the past year and a half of the Trump presidency, it is that Donald Trump never takes responsibility or blame for anything. As this crisis at the border grows in scale and magnitude, and as his claims that this is all the "Democrats' fault" fail to stick anywhere outside of far-right media, Trump will look for a new scapegoat -- and there is none more obvious than his arguably underqualified secretary of Homeland Security. That clock is already ticking. If there is but a scintilla of good left in Kirstjen Nielsen's soul -- and we who have known her for several decades think there is -- she has only one good option and that is to resign her post as secretary of Homeland Security, a move suggested Monday afternoon by California Sen. Kamala Harris. If Nielsen were to resign, it would be a powerful blow to Trump's zero-tolerance strategy at the border, by effectively throwing the onus of the unpopular policy back squarely into the Oval Office. An acting homeland secretary would take the reins of a highly toxic policy, while Trump is forced to search for yet another Cabinet level position. The ensuing confirmation hearings would essentially become a congressional referendum on Trump's border and immigration policies, subjecting American living rooms to days, if not weeks, of torrid, heartbreaking stories of children being yanked from their parents' clutches being read aloud in congressional chambers. But Trump is smarter than that -- he would use Nielsen's departure as an excuse to halt or revert the family separation policy. Nielsen, instead of going down in the annals of the Trump presidency as an enabler of actions that have been compared to World War II Japanese internment camps, could emerge as the heroine of this crisis, falling on her own sword for the good of the more than 2,000 children who don't have a father or mother nearby to console them and for the moral compass of an entire nation. Kirstjen, think about it. https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/19/opinions/dhs-secretary-kirstjen-nielsen-must-resign-wierson/index.html

https://sports.yahoo.com/senators-trade-mike-hoffman-sharks-amid-fiancees-cyberbullying-probe-143113002.html In the light of the 76ers front office fiasco, more wives and fiancées involved in a social media flap that has resulted in one of their husbands getting traded twice now.

Fascist, sure! Very different slant on things when you deliberately remove the context of those first two paragraphs...isn’t it? Alas, nuance. Rep. Will Hurd, a Texas Republican who is one of the GOP's most endangered lawmakers in November, told CNN's Erin Burnett that it wasn't clear what would happen next. "I think it's a little bit ridiculous that we have to legislate that you shouldn't take kids from their mommies," Hurd said. “The thought that they are going to be putting such little kids in an institutional setting? I mean it is hard for me to even wrap my mind around it,” said Kay Bellor, vice president for programs at Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service, “Toddlers are being detained.” While many conservatives maligned President Obama when he was in office, it’s easy to forget that he was fairly diligent in his policies working against illegal immigration. In fact, those views go back even further than his time as president starting in 2008. He gave a passionate speech about immigration reform in 2006, while he was Senator Barack Obama, addressed to President Bush. Initially, he discusses the benefits that immigration can have on the community when it’s done the correct and legal way. “I believe we can work together to pass immigration reform in a way that unites the people in this country, not in a way that divides us by playing on our worst instincts and fears,” he said. “Like millions of Americans, the immigrant story is also my story.” “My father came here from Kenya, and I represent a state where vibrant immigrant communities ranging from Mexican to Polish to Irish enrich our cities and neighborhoods.” He then proceeds to address the issue of illegal immigration, first describing the American people as, “welcoming and generous.” “But those who enter our country illegally, and those who employ them, disrespect the rule of law. And because we live in an age where terrorists are challenging our borders, we simply cannot allow people to pour into the United States undetected, undocumented and unchecked,” he continued. He said all of this in defense of a stronger border security bill and he clearly was and is very passionate about the issue. It is more relevant now than ever and is seen in the headlines of every major news station on a daily basis – if not more. “Americans are right to demand better border security and better enforcement of the immigration laws,” Obama said.

McCain, Gang of Eight deserve at least some credit for trying at least. But you know the optics are simply terrible when Ted Cruz starts turning on Trump in Texas, despite the less than 10% likelihood Beto O’Rourke could actually beat him. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_massacre_of_1871 (LA, one of the largest mass lynchings in US history) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Massacre_Cove (Oregon) The Chinese Exclusion Act was a United States federal law signed by President Chester A. Arthur on May 6, 1882, prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The act followed the Angell Treaty of 1880, a set of revisions to the U.S.–China Burlingame Treaty of 1868 that allowed the U.S. to suspend Chinese immigration. The act was initially intended to last for 10 years, but was renewed in 1892 with the Geary Act and made permanent in 1902. The Chinese Exclusion Act was the first law implemented to prevent a specific ethnic group from immigrating to the United States. It was repealed by the Magnuson Act on December 17, 1943. 61 years it lasted!!! Of course, Chester Arthur was a Republican, too. Repealed by a Democratic Congress and FDR.

Does Hahn deserve “blame” for not doing more due diligence on Wellington Castillo? In the same line of thinking, IF someone’s going to argue I should have known (ahead of time) Ohtani was going to get injured (and signing him was a bad move), have at it. At any rate, Dam and I were also right about Madrigal being the “right Sox pick” by the Hostetler Sorting Hat system from the very beginning. http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/sports/padres/sd-sp-fernando-tatis-jr-texas-league-all-star-game-20180613-story,amp.html

People won't be starving in China, but the GDP growth will slow to a reality of just 2~3% from a base most exports consider to be in the 4~4.5% range compared to the official numbers in the 6~7 range. The global impact will be not insignificant, especially emerging markets.

It’s funny I never get credit for any of my calls that are correct, such as when the Sox promotions were coming. Clearly I’m also wrong on Tatis as well, he is hugely over-ranked now as the #3 overall prospect by a number of industry experts above and beyond Law. He should probably be behind Dylan Cease, right? Also, I wasn’t wrong to be excited about Ohtani, any more than Hahn was “excited” to sign Wellington Castillo. The Angels knew there was a high risk with his elbow, it’s not like they signed him for Moncada or Robert dollars. And as far as Puig goes, the White Sox have routinely developed outfielders that put up 16 fWAR before age 28...happens pretty much every other year. Every other decade?

An 835 ops for a teenager in the Texas League is pretty respectable...even more importantly, on pace for only 15 errors or so. That’s the most remarkable number, actually.

No control, feel for his pitches...too strong with the heat and humidity. Offspeed stuff was a struggle and left lots of pitches up in the zone but easily could have had only 2-3 earned runs if an average MLB defense showed up.

Malone with some big at-bats in the late innings, game tying walk and just homered to straightaway CF. Madrigal now 3/5...will be first Sox player/coach since Don Kessinger.

Fitting the way this week has gone for the Sox...everyone can watch Grenier, Madrigal, Larnach and Rutschman at least.

More bad defense after a great throw from Engel...

More Sox hits or errors tonight? Tough call...

Trump has also succeeded at politicizing the intelligence community...between Hayden and Brennan, nobody is particularly happy about this new development. Rogers (NSA) has been throwing his opinions out there too, but to a lesser extent.

No ESPN/ESPN2 feed here in Philippines...just ipad.

OSU up 6-5. After intentional walk to Rutschman fails.

Now for 1 hour’s worth of pitching changes...game crawling along like molasses.

More misreads...

Yolmer’s defense has fallen off a bit this year, too...

Royals just traded Herrera...to Nationals. The Washington Nationals acquired closer Kelvin Herrera from the Kansas City Royals in exchange for infielder Kelvin Gutierrez, Minor League outfielder Blake Perkins and Minor League right-handed pitcher Yohanse Morel on Monday.

Charlotte might be the absolute worst team in the minors to watch unless Kopech, Stephens, Jimenez or Zavala are out there...

I can just see it...if Elrockin, the best Sox fan, has even given up on this team...why would/should hard working blue collar SouthSide families reward the Sox with their hard-earned money for an inferior product? Really thought Polka was going to miss that somehow...you’re almost more surprised when a ball is actually corralled out there.

Send this game film to JR and force him to watch it at least ten times...that might speed up the offseason spending plan. Questionable call goes against Covey there. 4 walks, one intentional. Too strong...doesn’t have any feel for his offspeed stuff and can’t get the fastball down, either.